Proposed change to World Tour win points
Including proof that I’ve completed the grind before providing my opinion:
First place during either knockout rounds should provide 1 bonus point. This would change the highest possible win point gain from 25 to 27. It wouldn’t significantly impact the overall grind but it would encourage people to go for the gold. And for those who are doing really well it will speed up the grind considerably.
I put probably over 100 hours into this grind. For the first half of the season I was pure soloQ but I’ve made a LOT of friends along the way and started playing with at least one friend, and we’d usually pick up a third by the second match. For the past week and some change I’ve been playing with a really solid team and even then it can be ROUGH sometimes.
WT was a soloQ’s DREAM COME TRUE in Season 3. It took me playing nothing but WT up until a few days after the Emerald reveal, but I managed to make it to E4 99% soloQ. I got through 6 wins in Emerald rank and I was so burnt out I switched to ranked TA for the last week or so of the season. With the squad I have now, it would have been trivial.
Embark traded all-out wins for a much greater time investment. I’m not completely opposed to this, but 100+ hours is a bit much. My current squad consists of one Platinum 1 ranked dude (in Ranked Tournament) and another dude who has mostly just played casually up until this season, but is easily on the same level as the P1 dude. Both are significantly stronger players than myself, but as a team we win FAR more often than we lose. BUT WE DO STILL LOSE
My P1 friend says that the lobbies we face in WT together are generally comparable to the lobbies he gets in ranked, though we still get some easy ones mixed in here and there.
THIS IS THE CURRENT STATE OF WT, EMBARK!
Me? I love it. I’m having the time of my life in this mode. But for the newbies (you WANT more players, right Embark?) and for the SoloQ’s out there, this grind is just ridiculous.
Including proof that I’ve completed the grind before providing my opinion:
First place during either knockout rounds should provide 1 bonus point. This would change the highest possible win point gain from 25 to 27. It wouldn’t significantly impact the overall grind but it would encourage people to go for the gold. And for those who are doing really well it will speed up the grind considerably.
I put probably over 100 hours into this grind. For the first half of the season I was pure soloQ but I’ve made a LOT of friends along the way and started playing with at least one friend, and we’d usually pick up a third by the second match. For the past week and some change I’ve been playing with a really solid team and even then it can be ROUGH sometimes.
WT was a soloQ’s DREAM COME TRUE in Season 3. It took me playing nothing but WT up until a few days after the Emerald reveal, but I managed to make it to E4 99% soloQ. I got through 6 wins in Emerald rank and I was so burnt out I switched to ranked TA for the last week or so of the season. With the squad I have now, it would have been trivial.
Embark traded all-out wins for a much greater time investment. I’m not completely opposed to this, but 100+ hours is a bit much. My current squad consists of one Platinum 1 ranked dude (in Ranked Tournament) and another dude who has mostly just played casually up until this season, but is easily on the same level as the P1 dude. Both are significantly stronger players than myself, but as a team we win FAR more often than we lose. BUT WE DO STILL LOSE
My P1 friend says that the lobbies we face in WT together are generally comparable to the lobbies he gets in ranked, though we still get some easy ones mixed in here and there.
THIS IS THE CURRENT STATE OF WT, EMBARK!
Me? I love it. I’m having the time of my life in this mode. But for the newbies (you WANT more players, right Embark?) and for the SoloQ’s out there, this grind is just ridiculous.